Handy reference chart for national sports writers producing Detroit sports/economic narratives.
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KJ@theonlycolors
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"Virtually all tactical ploys—the sacrifice bunt, the stolen base, the hit-and-run—operate on average to reduce run scoring." -- Eric Walker
Nice work
Its funny bc it’s true.
You know who the worst is? Doug Gottleib on ESPN radio. He NEVER passes up the chance to throw a cheap shot in about Detroit. Riots in Vancouver after Stanley Cup loss? 15 minute rant about how its worse in Detroit (even though last sports riot there nearly 30 years ago). Attendance down in other NFL cities? Go off about how Lions didn’t sell out every game during Barry era, bc we have terrible fans (forgets to mention that the ’Dome was 2nd largest stadium in NFL, and Lions routinely in top 3 in attendance when in Pontiac).
It’s like he watched the scene in Kentucky Fried Movie about sending convicts to Detroit instead of jail, and he thinks it’s still the early 80’s.
Newsflash
Michigan is not Detroit. So many people think all of Michigan is an economically depressed urban sprawl with no people in it.
Guess what: Detroit metro are is larger than the Boston metro area. Michigan is the 8th most populous state in the union. There is more to Michigan than an auto-industry. Also, I have been flabbergasted by the sheer idiocy about the size and orientation of the great lakes that non-Great Lakes natives all share.
I’m at a top 20 law school and the above statements apply to 100% of my classmates. It’s shocking how little people know about Detroit and Michigan in general.
Not sure what that whole rant was about
but everything in the picture above says “Detroit,” so it’s warranted. Plus, it’s a joke.
Sorry
Just having a bad day I guess. People make fun of me being from Michigan literally everyday. Pisses me off so bad just because of the sheer volume.
by MakeItTrizzle on Oct 4, 2011 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I completely understand.
When I first moved away from Detroit, people were amazed I made it out of there alive. I’ve tried to be an ambassador for Detroit/Michigan for 25 years, so I have a tendency to have a hair-trigger when Detroit is the butt end of a joke.
"But the point is, finger-pointing is just what sports fans do when something doesn't go right." -- Kurt Mensching
by RealityIsOptionable on Oct 4, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
you must be a Longhorn.
texans, you know.
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by GhostManOnThird on Oct 4, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Totally get it
But the graph is taking a shot at the media and how it’s always the same story when a Detroit team does well. I then used that as another example of misconceptions about Detroit and Michigan at large.
One more thing
If it came off as a shot at the graph, or the poster who provided it, that was not my intent. I meant to piggyback on the joke and point out how many people really have no idea about what Michigan is like. That’s all.
Is there big version of this?
I’m having trouble reading it.
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Would post direct link but I’m on my phone. Should have made fonts a little bigger in retrospect.
by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 4, 2011 3:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'd like to see this superimposed on a graph with Detroit's actual economic status
And the economic status of the country at large.
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